Geocaching just sent a nice “wrap” of my 2023 activity (which I don’t remember them doing last year) that was fun to reflect on. It also became obvious how much of my activity has changed.
Using Project-GC, this is my monthly activity over the last eight years:
Quick observations:
- There’s a pretty huge shift from pre-covid (right half) to post-covid (left-half), as I have been unable to get out with friends.
- From 2018 through part of 2019, I was trying to do a geocaching “streak,” whereby I’d go out every day and find a cache. It gets brutal as I’d be finding all the caches I’d otherwise ignore just to appease some arbitrary metric.
- Each year has had a spike of activity around travel taken.
- My activity has been declining, which I think is a sign of clearing out nearby things to find. After all, I’m in Year 16 of geocaching.
Spotify also published a “Wrapped” thing that is a lot of fun, as depicted by the time-tested Hamburger Chart. Interestingly, the proportion of Rock “burger” to Indie Folk “tomato” and Stomp and Holler “pickles and cheese” is what I prefer:
I suppose the encouraging thing is I listened to nearly 1,000 different artists during the year. I’d never heard of Low prior to the Rick Beato mention after the passing of Mimi Parker (at only 55!)
